Organizing Committee:

The Biophysical Society is organizing a meeting that will be hosted by the University of Warsaw on the significance of knotted structures for functions of proteins and nucleic acids. Attracting both experimentalists and theoreticians in the fields of biophysics, biology, and mathematics, this meeting will explore topics related to knotting, linking, and general entanglement in proteins and nucleic acids, and their relationship to folding and function. The focus will be on using physical principles to understand how nature controls tangling and untangling in both proteins and nucleic acids, focusing on understanding the consequences for function of those biomolecules.

Speakers:

Ebbe Andersen, Aarhus University, DenmarkAnjum Ansari, University of Illinois at ChicagoDorothy Buck, Imperial College London, United KingdomJanusz Bujnicki, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, PolandMarek Cieplak, Polish Academy of Science, PolandJane Clarke, University of Cambridge, United KingdomNicolas Clauvelin, Rutgers UniversityRemus Dame, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, NetherlandsIsabel Darcy, University of IowaTetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University, JapanGiovanni Dietler, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SwitzerlandJuli Feigon, University of California, Los AngelesAlexander Grosberg, New York UniversitySarah Harris, University of Leeds, United KingdomYa-Ming Hou, Thomas Jefferson UniversitySophie Jackson, University of Cambridge, United KingdomPatricia Jennings, University of California, San DiegoRobert Jernigan, Iowa State UniversityAndrzej Kolinski, University of Warsaw, PolandStephen Levene, University of Texas, DallasHongbin Li, University of British Columbia, CanadaJohn Maddocks, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, SwitzerlandTony Maxwell, John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park, United KingdomKenneth C. Millett, University of California, Santa BarbaraWladek Minnor, University of VirginiaAlexey Murzin, Medical Research Council Centre, United KingdomJose Onuchic, Rice UniversityEric Rawdon, University of St. ThomasPhoebe Rice, University of ChicagoTamar Schlick, New York UniversityChris Soteros, University of Saskatchewan, CanadaAndrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne, SwitzerlandDe Witt Sumners, Florida State UniversityPiotr Szymczak, University of Warsaw, PolandShoji Takada, Kyoto University, JapanDave Thirumalai, University of MarylandJoanna Trylska, Center of New Technologies, PolandMariel Vazquez, San Francisco State UniversityPeter Virnau, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, GermanyPaul Whitford, Northeastern UniversityStuart Whittington, University of Toronto, CanadaPeter Wolynes, Rice UniversityMichael Woodside, University of Alberta, CanadaTodd Yeates, University of California, Los AngelesAda E. Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelLynne E. Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine

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